Health Care

I believe health care is a right. Its a right because people dont really need health care but the government is trying to make sure that everyone has some even though it costs alot of money. Having health care has become a big deal because the government is trying to force it on some people even though they oppose it. Its a big deal because you have to pay, sometimes, extreme amounts of money and most people cant afford it. Its not a privilege because people that dont make an effort to work shouldnt get health care. Those people that dont have health care are the ones who choose not to make an effort to do anything with their lives. They are mostly the ones who live on the streets in tents and in sleeping bags. Those people have every opportunity to make something of themselves, just like those people with health care, but they chose not to. If you work and pay for health care then you deserve it so it is a right and NOT a privilege.

Problem Solver

Being a problem solver is something that I have tried to be all my life. When people have problems I try to help them find a solution with a good outcome for them but it never seems to work out that way. In school being a problem solver seems a lot easier to do. The problem solver that I am in school is one that attacks the problem and finds the best solution. One problem in school that I encountered this year was finding the right scholarship for me and actually doing it. The scholarship that I found was the 50 Best Moms in San Diego scholarship. It wanted you to explain why you think your mom was the best in San Diego and explain what she does to be the best. I completed this scholarship because I believed it was the right one for me to do and it was the solution to the problem that I had.
Another problem that I faced this year was figuring out the right classes that I needed to take to graduate. One of the classes that I needed to take wasn’t offered in our school first semester so I took the initiative to take the class over at another school and passed it with a B+. I am very proud of myself for doing so because the class was very important to my graduating.

Technology Producer

Well as a student at the School of Science and Technology I have pretty much accomplished this ESLR. Throuhgt most of my years in high scholl I have been trained, in a way, to be a technology producer. In my sophmore year I was in the school of science and engineering at Lincoln High School. For example, being at that school helped me to work on powerpoints that dealt with engineering and technology building a little train and a building. Doing such activities helped me to learn how to do such things with technology. In my junior year coming to SciTech helped me a whole lot more than I thought it would because I got to be hands on with some things that I did in my biotechnology, marine science, and chemistry classes. In biotch we created kits for a biotch company and sent them off to be used for the study of PTSD in marines that were overseas. This was a good experience for me. This year as a senior I learned how to use adobe Photoshop. I wasn’t in this class but I was always around to know what was going on most of the time. It helped me to learn how to use line art, and how to design a label along with editing pictures.

Effective Communicator

Through various classroom activities and assignments I have become an effective communicator in high school. When I first arrived to San Diego High School, I didn’t know anyone or anything about the school so I kept to myself and did things by myself in order to attempt to pass my classes. I soon realized that I needed to communicate with others in order to learn and make progress. One of my classes that required a lot of communication this year was peer education. In this class, we were all divided into groups in order to teach freshman and make them aware of issues such as HIV/STD’s and teenage drinking and driving. Being in this class made me realize that teaching is a very tough job, especially if group members won't share ideas. Our group was successful at times but we learned to communicate with each other and get our work done and teach a good lesson to the freshman that we had. Sometimes this was challenging because we all wanted to teach different lessons but we managed to put our preferences and differences aside and work together. At this point in my life, I have to be an effective communicator to get community service hours, apply for jobs and visit colleges. This will be a challenge for me but I know it can do it because I need to be able to communicate extremely well with others when I get out into the real world and start doing things for myself.

Collaborative Worker

Throughout high school i don't think that i've really been that much of a collaborative worker because i like to do things by myself. This year however i found that if i want to besuccessful in life i need to be ablee to work with others and while in Ms. Lonneckers peer counseling class i was able to experience such things. We did an assignment where we got the opportunity to be teachers ourselves and it was difficult. Some team members that i had didn't want to do anything but we got through it and taught what i thought were very successful lessons that some of the freshman were able to relate to. Being in a team taught me how to work with others and see how other people do things and what kind of ideas other people have. Being a colaborative worker helps people to understand one another. Being a colaborative worker myself helped and taught me how other people learn and how other people reatain information that has been taught to them.

Civic Duties

As an emerging adult I believe that my civic responsibilities are to set an example for younger people that are growing up in this community. Because they look up to my peers and I, I believe that the bad habits that we pick will be the bad habits that they pick up if we don’t set an example for them. I also believe that as a young emerging adult I owe the community an opportunity to get better. When I graduate from college and go off into the world I believe that coming back to my community and helping is something that I think I should do. Not only because these are the streets that I grew up in but because these are the streets that maybe one day my kids will gro w up in and their kids after them. Besides being a physical therapist and pursuing that dream I am also interested in contributing to the childcare programs in San Diego because I love kids and would some day like to take care of some of my own if that be having them or just babysitting.